Baldwin's wife, Hilaria, reportedly tweeted during James Gandolfini's funeral -- though she's asserted that she did not have her phone inside the service. Alec's harsh response (for which he later apologized) ended with him deleting his Twitter account.

Interestingly enough, this isn't the first time Baldwin deleted his account, a measure he seems to take after every public display of enragement. He's done so twice before, once after his American Airlines incident and the second time after marrying Hilaria, who is now pregnant with their first child.

What may be different this time around though, is that Baldwin vows there won't be a fourth.

At a party hosted in Gallery 151 in New York City yesterday, Vanity Fair caught up with Baldwin to learn if we'll ever enjoy his 140-character quips again.

Never. No. I went to Jimmy Gandolfini's funeral, and when I was there I realized Jimmy Gandolfini didn't have Twitter. Jimmy Gandolfini was so beloved as a person, and he was so admired as an actor, and he didn't give a fuck about social media.

I really learned a lesson at the funeral. I said to myself, This is all a waste of time. Meaning it's fun sometimes, but less and less, and less. It's just another chink in your armor for people to come and kill you. I stopped and said to myself, I'm going to try where I just don't do this anymore. [Vanity Fair]

Adele quit in November after Twitter trolls bombarded the site with disgusting insults and taunts when news broke that the "Someone Like You" singer had given birth.
Since then, the singer has rejoined Twitter.

The "30 Rock" star quit Twitter for the second time in July after getting married to Hilaria Thomas. (He first quit in December, after ranting about getting booted off an American Airlines flight).
Update: Alec Baldwin rejoined the Twitter universe again in 2013.

There are only two words that need to be said about Miley Cyrus quitting Twitter, back in 2009, and they are This. Video.

Make up your mind already! Amanda Bynes took to Twitter to announce that she was retiring from acting, at age 24, in June 2010. A month later, Bynes announced she was unretiring from acting. Then, in September the same year, she announced she was sacking her Twitter account, only to reemerge (with skin-baring photos) under the new handle @msamandabynes. The account is not visible to the public.

John Mayer admitted in June 2010 that he was "pretty much done" with his Twitter account, saying that "every night I think about canceling my Twitter account." The self-professed "tweetaholic" did delete his account, but, like any true addict, rejoined.

After tweeting what many considered to be dark suicidal thoughts and cries for sexual attention on her Twitter account in 2011, the singer-songwriter Sinead O'Connor did away with her account, the cheekily-named @howryeh. In September 2011, O'Connor, who suffers from bi-polar disorder, told the Guardian that her Twitter posts had been a "cry for help."

He didn't quit, per se, but the "Two and a Half Men" actor and public internet entrepreneur announced he would be seeking Twitter management with the firm Katalyst Media after publicly scolding Penn State over the firing of Jerry Sandusky, before he had read news about the molestation scandal. "While I feel that running this feed myself gives me a closer relationship to my friends and fans, I've come to realize that it has grown into more [than] a fun tool to communicate with people," Kutcher wrote on his blog.

He's done it before, but Chris Brown most recently quit his Twitter account -- and removed most of his timeline -- in November 2011 after ranting about Rihanna. A sign that Brown had had enough: "I don't say s**t to anybody and everyone feels its cool to attack me. GROWN ADULTS!!!! that s**t happened three years ago!" the singer wrote.